Please DU This Poll: Cost of War Worth It or Not?

[otohara]

Oddly enough, so far 132 people have no problem with spending $3+ trillion dollars in Iraq.

Do you think the cost of the Iraq war, estimated by Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz to be $3 trillion dollars thus far, has been worth it?

http://www.denverpost.com/


WASHINGTON — When U.S. troops invaded Iraq in March 2003, the Bush administration predicted that the war would be self-financing and rebuilding the nation would cost less than $2 billion.

Coming up on the fifth anniversary of the invasion, a new estimate from a Nobel laureate puts the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at more than $3 trillion.

That estimate, from Noble Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, also serves as the title of his new book, "The Three Trillion Dollar War," which hits store shelves Friday.

The book, co-authored with Harvard University professor Linda Bilmes, builds on previous research published in January 2006. The two argued then and now that the cost to America of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is wildly underestimated.

When other factors are added — such as interest on debt, future borrowing for war expenses, continued military presence in Iraq and lifetime health care and counseling for veterans — they think that the wars' costs range from $5 trillion to $7 trillion. http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_8385955

[Oceansaway]

1. .

Do you think the cost of the Iraq war, estimated by Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz to be $3 trillion dollars thus far, has been worth it?
Total Votes = 662
Yes
138 Votes, or 20.84 %
No
496 Votes, or 74.92 %
I don't know
28 Votes, or 4.229 %

[elizfeelinggreat]

2. ..

Yes
138 Votes, or 20.62 %
No
503 Votes, or 75.18 %
I don't know
28 Votes, or 4.185 %

[otohara]

3. Thanks

and shameless kick for my thread

[leftofthedial]

4. 19%+ yes

go figure

[Angela Shelley]

5. NO!

No 605
Yes 148
Don´t know 29

Now I want to know who the 148 people are who said Yes!

[otohara]

6. Retired Military

wingnuts living in Colorado Springs is my guess.

[krispos42]

7. Done

Post Poll - The Cost of War
Do you think the cost of the Iraq war, estimated by Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz to be $3 trillion dollars thus far, has been worth it?
Total Votes = 783
Yes
18.90 %
No
77.39 %
I don't know
3.703 %

[blondeatlast]

8. 77% no. nt

[Auntie Bush]

9. 148 voters think it is OK. I guess they don't have anyone in the service or

they are lining their pockets with our dollars earned from defense contracts..

[gilpo]

10. There was no "Oh, Hell No!" choice. What's up with that? nt

[Vincardog]

11. Yes 159 Votes, or 18.66 % No 662 Votes, or 77.69 % I don't know 31 Votes, or 3.638 %

[KansDem]

12. 18.66% "yes?" I think we found the 19% who approve of Bush

American Research Group

[Vincardog]

13. Just get a list of major Haliburton stock holders

[Homer Wells]

14. Holy Smokes!!!

The YES votes now are 181.

Must be the ones who pay little or no taxes saying, "$3,000,000,000,000? So What!!! Not my money" .

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